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The San Patricios: Mexico’s Fighting Irish
By Mark R. Day In 1846, thousands of immigrants, mostly Irish, joined the US army and were sent with Gen. Zachary Taylor’s army to invade Mexico in what some historians have called a war of Manifest Destiny. Dubious about why they were fighting a Catholic country, and fed up with mistreatment from their Anglo-Protestant officers, hundreds of [...]
Continue reading...Inauguran Exposición de Arte Popular del CECUT en el Museo Mingei
Friday, March 5, 2010
El Centro Cultural Tijuana presenta parte de su colección permanente de arte popular mexicano en la exposición Viva México, héroes y artesanos, que se inauguró el miércoles 24 de febrero en el Museo Mingei de San Diego. Encabezada por la cónsul de México en San Diego, Remedios Gómez Arnau, y los directores del Museo Mingei, Rob [...]
Continue reading...Census: Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous Among Us?
Friday, March 5, 2010
By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez New America Media It was when I first stood atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico in 1976 that I was finally able to grasp something my parents first communicated to me when I was five years old; that my roots on this continent are not simply Mexican, but both [...]
Continue reading...John Leguizamo Set to Explode at La Jolla Playhouse
Friday, February 26, 2010
By Michael Klam Somewhere in the madhouse of John Leguizamo’s mind, characters Bennie Blanco from the Bronx and Captain Vegetable from Sesame Street meet up for lunch to discuss world domination. Sid, the irksome, semi-loveable sloth from Ice Age, and Clown, the bloated blue-faced demon from Spawn, are also there, hungry and driving each other nuts. Leguizamo’s real-life [...]
Continue reading...Andrew Garcia …. Your Next American Idol
Friday, February 26, 2010
All jokes aside…..why this young Latino man needs your help … and vote! By William Gallegos It is now the 9th season of what has become the most popular and most talked about show of this century……American Idol. Gone is the hot but very annoying and sometimes drunk Paula Abdul, now replaced by the very non-music [...]
Continue reading...Joven tenor se plantea metas altas en la música clásica
Friday, February 26, 2010
Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz Existe un video de David Naranjo a los cinco años de edad cantando “Las Mañanitas” en el cumpleaños de un primo. En ese video se puede notar, ligeramente, su primer canto agudo, una pista que a su mamá, Adelaida Naranjo, le indicó que quizá el canto y la música estaban en el futuro [...]
Continue reading...Revolution Street Revival
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
By Mariana Martínez It is noon at Third Street and Revolution Avenue. The streets are full of sales people trying to entice people to buy curios, take a drink or buy a picture with a zebra painted donkey. Come in mister, curios, fine jewelry first margaritas are free amigo, Botox, Viagra, HGH, Soma…what do you need? There [...]
Continue reading...Dead Latinos
Friday, January 8, 2010
By José R. Sánchez When does one dead Hollywood actor trump another? When does one fierce dead organizer against social injustices trump another? In fact, when does a dead chimp responsible for a hideous attack catapult himself above the life of a dead Mexican anthropologist with over 150 books and articles filled with archaeological and cultural [...]
Continue reading...Barrio Logan has a new “community treasure”
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Pablo Jaime Sáinz When Mrs. Gracia Molina de Pick came to live in San Diego 52 years ago, she said one of the first things she noticed was how small the library in Logan Heights was. She said her dream became to one day help create a library in the Barrio similar to the one [...]
Continue reading...Barrio Logan tiene un nuevo “tesoro comunitario”
Friday, December 18, 2009
Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz Cuando la Señora Gracia Molina de Pick vino a vivir a San Diego hace 52 años, dijo que una de las primeras cosas que notó fue que tan pequeña era la biblioteca de Logan Heights. Dijo que su sueño era un día poder ayudar a crear una biblioteca en el Barrio similar [...]
Continue reading...A Transplant Becomes Symbol of U.S. Holiday Season
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Jim Estrada Each year, the holiday season that begins with Thanksgiving Day and runs through New Year’s Day is a time for most U.S. Americans to contemplate their good fortune, demonstrate compassion and concern for one another, and hope for peace on earth. This time of the year is also a time for reflection. For the [...]
Continue reading...Cultures Coming Together for the Day of the Dead
Friday, November 20, 2009
By Kristina Millikan Over 45,000 people attended this year’s Day of the Dead festival, which was held for the first time at Mission San Luis Rey on November 1. This new venue provided a unique space for the event, which added to the cultural ambiance. The blending of Catholic theology with ancient Mesoamerican indigenous religious beliefs [...]
Continue reading...Art Activist Victoria Delgadillo Offers Gracia Molina de Pick Lecture at the San Diego Public Library
Friday, November 13, 2009
Artist’s Work Creates Public Awareness of Femicides in Juarez The San Diego Public Library will host the second annual Gracia Molina de Pick Latina Feminisms Lecture, presented by the Chicano/a~Lat-ino/a Arts and Humanities minor program at UC San Diego. Featured artist and scholar Victoria Delgadillo will present this year’s lecture, entitled “Art Activism and the Collective [...]
Continue reading...Transcending Trauma, Reclaiming Humanity
Friday, November 13, 2009
Perspective By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez New America Media November 7 marked 30 years since I won my first police brutality trial in East L.A. After all these years, I have come to understand the meaning of resilience. Equally important, I have come to understand that the attempt to silence me was an act of political violence. I’m not [...]
Continue reading...Day of the Dead Altar at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park
Saturday, November 7, 2009
In honor of Mexico’s Day of the Dead Mingei International is exhibiting a Day of the Dead altar in the Museum. This colorful, traditional offering to the dead is a collaboration between the Museum, the Mexican Consulate in San Diego and the University of Tijuana. It will be on view through November 29 in the [...]
Continue reading...Migrant Memories Surround the Days of the Dead
Friday, November 6, 2009
Frontera NorteSur For Don Ines Antonio Resendiz, it was the winds of fate that whisked the young Mexican farmer to the United States. Like other residents of the small town of Cerrito in the Costa Grande region of Guerrero state, Resendiz’s livelihood was shattered when Hurricane Tara tore a path of destruction in November 1961. Stripped [...]
Continue reading...Enérgica Protesta Contra Irregularidades en el CECUTEC de Tecate
Friday, August 28, 2009
Entrevista: “El Centro Cultural Tecate en serios problemas” Por: Paco Zavala Indudablemente que aún en estos tiempos la ceguera de algunos funcionarios públicos no les permite ver, ni valorar la trascendencia de sus actos, creen y piensan que las instituciones que se les confieren a su responsabilidad son de su propiedad y pueden hacer con ellas lo que [...]
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Disco une a dos culturas en el Día de San Patricio
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Friday, March 12, 2010
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